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Pick your plastic
New York Post
Situation 2: “I'm worried about identity theft when I use plastic.” Then use a credit card instead of a debit card. Credit cards limit theft exposure, notes Jeff Maas, a certified financial planner with Lincoln Financial Advisors.

Daily Mail

88000-mile journey? Plastic card makes landfall in Alaska after 33-year sea voyage
msnbc.com
James Poulson / Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP Beachcomber Emmitt Andersen, 12, holds up a plastic card set adrift by NOAA in the 1970s that he found in Sitka, Alaska. By Ian Johnston, msnbc.com A plastic card dropped into the ocean 33 years ago has been ...
Historic plastic drift card washes up on Alaskan beach after 33 year sea voyageDaily Mail
Emmitt Andersen, Alaska 12-Year-Old, Discovers Drift Card On Alaska Shore (VIDEO)Huffington Post

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CBC.ca

Plastic SIN cards to be phased out
Vancouver Sun
The federal government will stop issuing plastic SIN cards to save money and help avoid identify theft. In future, Canadians getting a social insurance number will be told the number by a letter, but they will not get a card.
SIN card phasing out to help avoid identify theftThe Province
Conservatives to eliminate SIN card in latest cost-cutting moveMetroNews Canada

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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

PBA cards: Do they work, and should they?
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
(They come in gold, too — for police and family members.) What about that piece of cardboard (or plastic), signed by a local cop, in your wallet? Here's how it works: In most towns, each PBA member gets 10 cards to sign and distribute.

MasterCard Is Plastic Gold
Barron's
By TERESA RIVAS | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR Like its rival Visa, shares of the card processor were on a tear before the market correction. Time to buy on the dip? As MasterCard's advertising reminds us, there are some things money can't buy.

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CBC.ca

Ottawa to phase out plastic SIN cards
Victoria Times Colonist
By Mark Kennedy, Postmedia News May 16, 2012 The federal government is phasing out the plastic SIN card issued to millions of Canadians to save money and help avoid identify theft. In future, Canadians who receive a new social insurance number will get ...
Feds phasing out SIN card to fight identify theftCanada.com
Conservatives to eliminate SIN card in latest cost-cutting moveHamilton Spectator
SIN cards headed for scrap heapCBC.ca
Globe and Mail (blog) -CityNews
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Technology and the Future of Payments: Credit Cards and the Mobile Wallet
Inventorspot
Remember the time when people began carrying plastic cards in their wallets instead of cash when they left the house? Credit cards were first used in the 1920s and were popularized in the fifties, when the concept was expanded from automobile gas ...

Tapscape

1Card Combines Reward Cards and Mobile Coupons Into a Single App
Tapscape
Let's be honest: who wouldn't love to ditch all those stupid plastic keychain fobs and loyalty cards for a streamlined virtual wallet that's housed right on your phone? It's surprisingly easy to transfer your card info: any physical card showing either ...

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